Former US president Jimmy Carter said Monday on a trip to Israel that Israel’s current government has abandoned the two-state solution in favor of a Greater Israel that will include the West Bank and Gaza inside the Jewish state.

“We are heading towards a one-state outcome, which will fail to ensure the security and democratic rights of the people of Israel and renege on the promise of self-determination for Palestinians,” Carter said. “The two-state solution is vanishing. We urgently need a fresh approach by all parties if a Palestinian state is to be achieved.”

“All indication to us is that the two-state solution has basically been abandoned and we’re now moving toward a Greater Israel, or Eretz Israel, taking over all of the land between the Mediterranean and the Jordan River, which I think is contrary to the two-state solution concept,” he added.

Carter’s realization appears to be accurate, if belated. Negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians have stopped completely because Israel refused reasonable preconditions from the Palestinians that Jewish settlement projects inside the West Bank be halted.

This refusal, and the insistence on continuing colonization of Palestinian territory should have been a sign to Carter long ago that Israel aims to dispossess Palestinians of the 22% of historic Palestine that they have left.

If this wasn’t convincing enough, Carter might have looked at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party Charter, which declares Jewish settlement in the West Bank and Gaza as “the realization of Zionist values” and describes the whole of the West Bank and Jerusalem as belonging to Israel.

This not only goes directly against stated US policy in favor of a negotiated two-state solution, but it violates international law prohibiting forced relocation of occupied people and the settlement of conquered or occupied lands.

There have also been plans put forth in the Israeli Knesset which proposed to annex “Area C” of the West Bank, which makes up over 60% of the total, and establish formal Israeli law there and “naturalize” some 50,000 Palestinians from the seized territory. At least 27 Likud party Knesset members have endorsed the idea.

A recent report from the European Union warned that “if current trends are not stopped and reversed, the establishment of a viable Palestinian state within pre-1967 borders seem more remote than ever.” And that, indeed, seems to be the intention.

The EU report explained how “a combination of house and farm building demolitions; a prohibitive planning regime; relentless settlement expansion; the military’s separation barrier; obstacles to free movement; and denial of access to vital natural resources, including land and water, is eroding Palestinian tenure of the large tract of the West Bank on which hopes of a contiguous Palestinian state depend.”

Neither Romney nor Obama have the balls to stand up for stated US policy re the two-state solution. If it's too late for Palestine today, it'll be too late for Israel tomorrow. Sooner or later this apartheid state will implode. Hopefully, the AIPAC-sponsored American leadership will be left licking more than their wounds for the bankrupt policies that are bound to make this happen.

The 2 state solution is not possible.There is not enough real estate left for a viable Palestinian state .There needs to be one state with one person one vote democracy.To lesson the demographic shock to the Zionist ,Gaza should become an autonomous Egyption state.

Nazies were nothing!!! agaist these Zionist occupairs…Unbelivable arrogance of "our times" – surely will not go unpunished. United people of Islam should rise up to this biggest violation of "our times". Most antisemitic behaviour of colonists – this ongoing tragedy is fare from over. Zionism has to be defeated for benefit of WHOLE HUMANITY. Judaism / meaning R E A L Judaism of those fearing G-d and living in disapora according scriptures/ should move and restore its respect before this Satanism – Zionism swalows and destroyes whole ME….and wages WW3….peter czech

Carter realized a long time ago what the situation was. It was the entire subtext of "Peace not Apartheid." (Of course, by the time that book came out it was already a bit late for a last-ditch attempt at the two state solution.) The only reason that Carter has been pulling his punches rhetorically is that he is still trying to appeal to the vanishing liberal-zionist sort who would push forward the two-state solution in Israel. So he has to couch it in terms that suggest it's still possible, even if he is essentially now acknowledging that it isn't. In any case, he is the most US prominent politician to state that the two-state solution is not happening, which is why this article was even written.

The best solution would be "quick dissolution of Israel" and return to "Normal", return to "times of peace, harmony and justice" people of all religions enjoed before this truly evil ideology Zionism was interduced to ME…..peter czech